🇮🇹Ferruccio Busoni ： Cadenza for Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 in D-Dur

Busoni presents this cadenza for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 as an independent piano work. While following the flow of the concerto, it brings the performer’s freedom of expression and virtuosity to the fore, with the treatment of the themes, expanding register, and harmonic changes providing its main points of interest. The opening should preserve the connection with the original music while setting the cadenza in motion; as it unfolds, the performer is called upon to heighten its tension and brilliance, with an awareness of returning to the concerto at the close. Clear Mozartian phrasing should be maintained, while ornaments and passagework should not be rushed, and careful attention should be paid to musical direction and excessive pedal resonance.